There is a hole in the narrative, dear
reader. One we've chosen to accept. Take,
for example, discussions of instinct
which inevitably will lead to the
Donner Party, that is if you teach out
West. Is the part of ...
The Winter of 1846-7 by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Jill Moyer Sunday
Dragonfly Notes: On Distance and Loss
A memoir by Anne Panning
Stillhouse Press, September 2018
$16.00, 258 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0996981699
Anne Panning’s latest book ...
Review: Dragonfly Notes: On Distance and Loss by Anne Panning
Book Reviews, LAR Online
River Ephemeral
River, why did you lead me to you
when there is no water
...
Two Poems by Carey Salerno
LAR Online, Poetry
Translation by Don Schofield
Raffaello Ceccoli’s Icon, 1853
My father liked the icon
in the monastery because Ceccoli
portrayed his dead daughter as the Virgin.
I was alive and he
was not a ...
Four Poems by Liana Sakelliou
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
Reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
Essays by Anne Boyer
Ugly Duckling Presse, April 2018
$20.00, 239 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1937027926
Thirty-three essays is a lot for a single ...
Review: A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Near midnight mid-December,
and my junkie uncle, the soldier,
sleepwalks home. Up avenues
strewn with everyday debris,
past rats he imagines man-made
and robot. In his heavy half sleep,
he ...
Variation On a Theme by Gil Scott-Heron, by John Murillo
LAR Online, Poetry
I’ve lived long enough
I’ve lived long enough to see the Bible proven wrong. The rich have inherited the earth. Remember the bestselling myth of The Millionaire Next Door? Forget it. Ever seen the old ...
Two Haibun by Jim Natal
LAR Online, Nonfiction, Poetry
Reviewed by Nancy Posey
Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
Beth Ann Fennelly
W.W. Norton & Company, October 2017
$20.95, 111 pp.
ISBN 978-0-393-60947-9
Most fans of Oxford, Mississippi’s ...
Review: Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly
Book Reviews, LAR Online
We built our new house
in a field of lava.
Black pumice lawn.
The land was cheap. Rivers
in the hills ran magma red.
Runoff steamed the angelfish.
An aftershock left the air
placid yet stale. The sun
greened ...
After the Volcano by Jonathan Wells
LAR Online, Poetry
